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Michigan Court of Appeals· 3/2/1993

People v. Williams

Citations

  • 499 N.W.2d 404
  • 198 Mich. App. 537

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • upholding an almost instantaneous forcible entry after officers saw someone watching them as they approached the residence and then saw people running toward the back of the house as the police announced their presence and authority
  • relying on Ray to hold that “the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the officer’s testimony” because “the testimony concerned how the evidence found in defendant’s house was routinely used to cut, weigh, package, and sell controlled substances”
  • relying on Ray to hold that “[t]he trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the officer’s testimony” because “the testimony concerned how the evidence found in [the] defendant’s house was routinely used to cut, weigh, package, and sell controlled substances”
  • failure to instruct the jury to consider the profile testimony only as background information supports the conclusion that it was admitted as substantive evidence of guilt
  • a police officer was properly qualified as an expert to explain how innocuous household items can have an alternative use in the illicit drug trade
  • “[T]he testimony concerned how the evidence found in defendant’s house was routinely used to cut, weigh, package, and sell controlled substances. . . . The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the officer’s testimony.”

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Judges: Sawyer, Hood, Jansen

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